Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

This list of the best history podcasts will pluck you from the present and send you on an auditory voyage through the past ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...

Elizabeth II (1926–2022) became queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI (1895–1952). Known for her efforts to modernise the ...

Lombroso is the subject of a historical novel by former criminal barrister Diana Bretherick. Here, writing for History Extra, Bretherick tells you everything you need to know about him, and explains ...

Which countries were involved? The Second World War involved almost every part of the world. But the key players were the Axis powers on one side (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and on the other side the ...